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Summary: "A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 HOPBlake, Melissa
Summary: In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake's work in a YouTube video. What happened next is equal parts a searing view into society, how we collectively view and treat disabled people, and the making of an advocate. After a troll said that Blake should be banned from posting pictures of herself, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4092 BLAEbadi, Shirin
Summary: "For several years the Iranian government tried everything to silence Shirin Ebadi: They arrested her, bugged her phones, attacked her home, shadowed her everywhere she went, seized her office, and nailed a death threat to her front door. But nothing could stop Ebadi from her work as a human rights lawyer defending women, children, and the persecuted in Iran. After several years of harrassment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBADI, SHIRIN EBAEllenport, Craig
Summary: Dennis Brutus was a poet and human rights activist whose works centered on his sufferings and those of Black South Africans. For fourteen years, Dennis taught English and Afrikaans in South Africa. As the white minority government increased restrictions on the black population, he became involved in a series of anti-apartheid related activities, including efforts to end discrimination in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRUHarbury, Jennifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.8105 HARCocca-Leffler, Maryann
Summary: In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy [Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEUDukureh, Jaha
Summary: "This extraordinary memoir details the monumental journey of one young Gambian woman from survivor of FGM and forced child marriage, to global activist and political leader who became UN Women's first Goodwill Ambassador for Africa, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, and among the youngest people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2025
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUKUREH, JAHA DUKBono
Summary: "Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. 'When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BONO BONCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BonoMaslo, Lina
Summary: When Malala Yousafzai was born, people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, people said girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUDunn, Dinah
Summary: "Read 10 stories of dedicated women who stood up for what's right."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 920 DUNMurad, Nadia
Summary: "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MURAD, NADIA MURSokolik, Vicki
Summary: "They hide in plain sight. They survive on school breakfasts and lunches, join sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends' couches, in parks, or on the streets. Their official designation is "unaccompanied homeless youth" -- they are not "runaways" breaking free from strict parenting; these are kids seeking safety. They have escaped abusive parents, been abandoned, or never had a home to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 SOKMenchú, Rigoberta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.81 MENHeumann, Judith E.
Summary: One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEUMANN, JUDITH E. HEUCarter, Jimmy
Summary: "This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he and his dedicated colleagues have fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, monitored elections in troubled nations, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9260 CARMckesson, DeRay
Summary: "We have never been the voiceless, proclaims activist DeRay Mckesson, we have been the unheard. And the message that must now be heard is that inequality is neither hardwired nor inevitable. We have a system that was designed to favor some at the expense of others, and because it was designed, it can be redesigned. Indeed, we can live in a society of equity, justice, and joy. In August 2014,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 MCKJones, Rachel Pieh
Summary: "Somalia's Mother Teresa chose love over fear. Amid a volatile mix of disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make? "I am nobody," she always insisted. Yet by the time she was killed for her work three decades later she had not only developed an effective cure for tuberculosis among nomadic peoples but also exposed a massacre,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plough Publishing House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TONELLI, ANNALENA JONNyamayaro, Elizabeth
Summary: "The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NYAMAYARO, ELIZABETH NYADurrani, Pashtana
Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DURRANI, PASHTANA DURGhafari, Zarifa
Summary: "Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was six when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-four when she became mayor--one of the first female mayors in the country--and first of Wardak, one of the most conservative provinces in Afghanistan. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GHAFARI, ZARIFA GHALeng'ete, Nice
Summary: "Nice's journey from "heartbroken child and community outcast, to leader of the Maasai" is an inspiration and a reminder that one person can change the world--and every girl is worth saving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENG'ETE, NICE LENMurad, Nadia
Summary: "In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia had dreams of becoming a history teacher or opening her own beauty salon. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.95 SHEStoll, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 1999